The Gottman 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work Couples Workshop

A Relationship Enrichment Workshop

Are you and your partner keen on learning vital tools to have a strong and lasting relationship? This psycho-educational workshop provides couples with foundational knowledge on healthy relationships as well as the opportunity to try out practical tools to build hands-on skills. The skills are helpful for couples at any stage of the relationship, whether you have been together for one year or many.

The workshop is built on decades of data and research regarding relationship satisfaction and follows the outline of the groundbreaking New York Times best seller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, Ph.D. and Nan Silver. This workshop aids couples in deepening the friendship foundation of their relationship, managing conflict successfully, honoring each other’s dreams, and creating shared meaning.

This workshop will give you new insights while learning relationship skills that can dramatically improve the intimacy and friendship in your relationship and help you resolve conflict in a healthy, productive way. This class combines teaching and demonstrations with break out sessions where you and your partner work through the various skill building exercises where you focus on your relationship. This component occurs between the couple and is not shared with the group.

Contact

Format

A modular cumulative approach
Eight, 90-minute sessions
Led by a trained Gottman Seven Principles Program Leader who has also completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Participants will receive a Couples Guide in addition to ‘the Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work’ book
Couples Guide helps integrate knowledge from the book and provides space to complete the exercises in the workshop

What You Will Learn

Improve friendship, fondness, and admiration
Enhance romance and intimacy
Manage conflict constructively
Gain skills to address perpetual and solvable problems
Create shared meaning
How to maintain gains throughout a lifetime

Who Should Attend

Couples in committed relationships, whether that is pre-engaged, pre-marital, married, common-law. These skills apply to every phase of relationship
Those who wish to enhance/strengthen their relationship
Couples needing better conflict management tools
Couples who may be contemplating couples therapy but are not yet ready for therapeutic support
People and couples of all backgrounds, ages, faiths, sexual orientations, and relationship arrangements

Who Should Not Attend

This psycho-educational class format is not appropriate for all couples. This workshop is not intended for:

Couples dealing with any form of abuse, domestic violence, unwanted touch, or substance abuse
Couples dealing with severe relationship distress
Individuals struggling with serious emotional or mental health problems
Relationships with serious compulsive behaviour with gambling, sexual acting out, and other disruptive behaviours
If any of the above-mentioned points describe you and/or your relationship, this class is not appropriate for you; you may wish to seek individual or couples therapy instead

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